Journal Entry #3

5 things that I understand
1. The religions of ancient Palestine, the horrible rites of Black Maigic, the black god of India and the monstrous priapic Rutrem reign under the name of Belphegor.
2.It is the same for the science of Magi and the transcendental Magic, as eah is needed for the primeval priestly of art.
3.Anarchic Magic is the cultus of death. the sorceror must devote himself to fatality and must sacrifice children in order to remian immmortal.
4.Initiation is the necessar conseuence of the hierarchic principle which is the basis of realisation in Magic.
5.Pantheism can never for a synthesis but is degenerated by the sciences.

4 questions
At what ime period did barbrians began to use Black Magic?
Why did socerors have to sacrifice children in order to maintain youth?
Why must you go threw a cruel initiation in order to be accepted into the realms of magis?
Are there counter spells for these types of activities?

3 words that i do not know
1.Insensate Pg 119- lacking sense or understanding
2.Catalepsy Pg 124- a trancelike state marked by loss of voluntary motion in which the limbs remain in whatever position they are placed
3.Posthumous Pg 128- born after the death of the father

2 literary elements
1."This universal light has had its uncertain relfelections and its shadows, but ever after the dark night of error we behold it emerge, one and pure like the sun." pg 129 Simile
2."Truth is born into the world the star of science" Pg 129 Personification

Summary Sentence
Magic is worshipped in different ways and with each specific principle applied to ach way, a conseuence is being created.